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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:26:55
Message-Id: 200703072321.51461.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting by Grant Goodyear
1 On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Grant Goodyear wrote:
2 > If I understand the process correctly, spb et al are writing their best
3 > vision of an ebuild spec, while trying to strike a reasonable
4 > compromise between what portage does and what it should be doing, but
5 > once they're done it's going to be submitted to the Council and the
6 > community to be analyzed, commented upon, and accepted in part, in
7 > whole, or not at all by the Council. If they take too long, or their
8 > work is too paludis-biased, or if people just don't trust the authors,
9 > then nothing is preventing anybody else from writing a competing spec.
10
11 I actually know so, but as it seems that much work to write, it is quite a
12 hurdle for someone else to step up with an alternative. It might be tempting
13 to ignore a bias.
14
15 Paul
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18 Paul de Vrieze
19 Gentoo Developer
20 Mail: pauldv@g.o
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